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"What I Need" by Dave Barnes
From "What We Want, What We Get" (2010)
Tabbed by Kevin Dorth and Wessley Mitchell
Tuning: Standard
Capo: None
This song is mostly down-strumming, but feel free to mix it up.
Intro:
C#G#BF#7
Verse 1:
C#G#BF#7
I got a head full of dreams and time here to scheme.
C#G#BF#7
This ain't good, good.
C#G#BF#7
I'm thinking, you know, about what did and didn't go
C#G#BF#7
Like it should, should.
G#
All these expectations
F#7C#
Just mean my heart'll be breaking.
G#C#mF#
Oh, why can't I see?
Chorus:
BEG#m
You give me what I need,
E
Even on my brightest day,
B
Even in a hurricane.
EG#m
You give me what I need,
E
Even when there's way too much,
C#
Even when I'm down to dust.
G#BF#7C#G#BF#7
Verse 2:
C#G#BF#7
I've troubled with time, but its will was not mine.
C#G#BF#7
There was no slowin' where it was goin'.
C#G#BF#7
The wishes I willed all came back unfulfilled.
C#G#BF#7
I was prayin' without patience.
G#
All those expectations
F#7C#
Just meant my heart was breaking.
G#C#mF#
Oh, why can't I see?
Chorus:
BEG#m
You give me what I need,
E
Even on my brightest day,
B
Even in a hurricane.
EG#m
You give me what I need,
E
Even when there's way too much,
Even when I'm down to dust.
Bridge:
F#BF#E
I keep calm, carry on,
Like nothing ever went wrong.
F#BF#E
That's what I'm gonna do.
F#
(That's what I'm gonna do, oh.)
BF#E
Laugh it off, move along,
Get back where I belong.
F#BF#E
Live my life by leaning on you.
F#B
(Oh, I lean on you. I'm gonna lean on you, yeah.)
Chorus:
BEG#m
You give me what I need,
E
Even on my brightest day,
B
Even in a hurricane.
EG#m
You give me what I need,
E
Even when there's way too much,
Even when I'm down to dust.
BEG#m
You give me what I need,
E
Even on my brightest day,
B
Even in a hurricane.
EG#m
You give me what I need,
E
(Oh, oh, what I need.)
BE
You give me what I need.
G#mE
Give me what I need.
BEG#mE
Oh, oh, oh, oh.